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As the calendar year ends and many companies plan for new budget cycles next spring, it is a good time to assess your giving strategy and ensure it is designed to maximize both social and business
VolunteerMatch offers this relatively simple outline on how you can start to evaluate your internal volunteer programs. It all starts by asking questions.
Prudential’s vice president, Corporate Social Responsibility reflects on the lessons she and Prudential have learned since helping found Living Cities 25 years ago.
America’s Charities recognizes a group of companies that have gone the extra mile with their matching gift programs.
This study of family foundations in 2008 summarizes key findings regarding how many active family foundations are planning to spend down or exist in perpetuity (or have not yet made a decision), and examines their motivations and decision-making.
A growing number of foundations and philanthropists have elected to give away their money by a fixed date rather than establish perpetual foundations.
The Rural Development Philanthropy Learning Network is a diverse group of community foundations and funds, and philanthropic and rural development organizations that exchange experience, knowledge and skills to increase rural assets and improve rural livelihood.
A publication of the Internal Revenue Service, this document addresses activities that may jeopardize a charity's exempt status, recordkeeping, required public disclosures and other issues of importance to public charities.
Updated publication from CFLeads focusing on resident engagement for community foundations.
Lumina Foundation's signature report on college attainment statistics is designed to track the progress toward its goal of having 60% of Americans hold a post-secondary degree or credential by the year 2025.
This W.K. Kellogg Foundation resource guide provides individuals and organizations with access to extensive learning materials, tools and data on racial inequities, their impact on communities of color and the process for healing racial wounds so that communities can work together.
Released in June 2014, this report lays out a vision and a bold plan of action to maximize the potential of philanthropy and the private sector to increase opportunity for boys and young men of color that benefits the entire country.
This newly released toolkit from The Monitor Institute aims to help community philanthropy organizations apply innovation and design methodologies to think creatively about their business models and the broader future of the field.
How do you assess the social impact of pro bono services? When your company is willing to invest its professionals’ time, how do you tell the story of the positive good it does? Taproot Foundatio
While we’re on the subject of volunteering, check out the new data available at Corporation for National and Community Service. You can view
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy recently released the first-ever analysis of corporate impact investing, i.e.
A recent article in Forbes covers the ever-changing environment for those who work as corporate responsibility executives. The article highlights five key points to keep in mind.
On November 18, Eli Lilly and Co.
This advocacy and civic engagement toolkit is designed for private foundations that want to educate and encourage their grantees about getting involved in civic and policy activities to increase organizational capacity and impact. While its primary focus is on the grantmaking activity of foundations, the toolkit also addresses rules and guidance for policy involvement by foundation officials acting on behalf of their foundations.
